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PART I -- EARLY CIVILIZATIONS |
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Global Conceptions of the Cosmos and Creation |
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1 | (15) |
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The Egyptian Creation Story: The Creation According to Ra |
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2 | (2) |
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The Hebrew Creation Story: Genesis |
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4 | (4) |
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P'an Ku, China's Creation Story |
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8 | (3) |
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A Hindu Creation Story: Rig Veda |
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11 | (1) |
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A Greek Creation Story: Hesiod's Theogony |
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12 | (2) |
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A Mayan Creation Story: Popol Vuh |
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14 | (2) |
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Culture Heroes in Early Epics |
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16 | (22) |
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16 | (6) |
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22 | (6) |
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Dialli Kieba Koate, Sunjatta |
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28 | (10) |
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Law in the Ancient Near East: Babylonian and Hittite |
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38 | (7) |
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The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi |
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39 | (3) |
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42 | (3) |
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Origins of Writing in West Asia; the Scribal Profession |
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45 | (6) |
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A Sumerian Schoolboy Text |
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45 | (2) |
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Papyrus Lansing: A Schoolbook |
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47 | (4) |
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Challenges to Egyptian and Hebrew Tradition |
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51 | (11) |
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Hatshepsut: Successful Female Pharaoh |
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52 | (3) |
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The Hymn to Aton and Psalm 104 |
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55 | (5) |
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Isaiah: Prophet of Doom and Hope |
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60 | (2) |
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Military Strategy and Tactics: Assyria and China |
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62 | (7) |
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63 | (1) |
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Sun Tzu [Sunzi], The Art of War |
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64 | (5) |
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PART II -- CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS |
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69 | (97) |
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The Hindu Tradition in Classical India |
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69 | (15) |
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The Essence of the Universe |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (3) |
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75 | (3) |
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Duties of a King, Artha Shastra |
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78 | (2) |
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Hsuan-tsang [Xuanzang], The Land and People of India |
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80 | (4) |
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84 | (8) |
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Enlightenment of the Buddha |
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85 | (2) |
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Pure Land Scripture, Sukhavativyuha |
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87 | (3) |
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90 | (2) |
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The Golden Age of Chinese Thought |
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92 | (14) |
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92 | (4) |
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Taoism [Daoism]: Lao Tzu [Lao Zi] |
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96 | (4) |
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Legalism: The Writings of Han Fei Tzu [Han Fei Zi] |
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100 | (5) |
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Mencius, ``Humane Government'' |
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105 | (1) |
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106 | (28) |
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107 | (4) |
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Herodotus, Persian Dialogue |
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111 | (3) |
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114 | (3) |
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Thucydides, Peloponnesian War |
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117 | (9) |
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Xenophon, The Government of Sparta |
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126 | (5) |
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131 | (3) |
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Roman Contributions to Ideologies of Government and Law |
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134 | (21) |
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Plutarch, Numa the Lawgiver |
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135 | (10) |
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Titus Livy, Heroes of the Early Republic |
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145 | (4) |
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Polybius, ``Why Romans and Not Greeks Govern the World'' |
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149 | (4) |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Laws |
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153 | (2) |
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Science in the Greco-Roman and Chinese Worlds |
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155 | (11) |
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The Yellow Emperor, Nei-ching [Neijing] (Canon of Medicine) |
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156 | (3) |
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Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease |
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159 | (3) |
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Pliny the Elder, The Nature Story |
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162 | (4) |
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PART III -- CHRISTIANITY TO ISLAM |
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166 | (53) |
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166 | (6) |
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The Golden Rule and God's Will |
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167 | (1) |
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The Writings of Saint Paul on Women |
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168 | (4) |
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172 | (13) |
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Pliny the Younger, Letters to Emperor Trajan |
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173 | (2) |
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St. Augustine of Hippo, The Just War |
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175 | (2) |
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Paulus Orosius, History Against the Pagans |
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177 | (3) |
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Monastic Life: The Rule of St. Benedict |
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180 | (5) |
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Fusion of Church and State: Byzantine Beginnings |
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185 | (11) |
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Eusebius, ``Life of Constantine'' |
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186 | (5) |
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Procopius, History of the Wars and The Secret History |
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191 | (5) |
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196 | (11) |
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197 | (8) |
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Sayings (Hadith) Ascribed to the Prophet: Holy War |
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205 | (2) |
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High Point of Islamic Culture |
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207 | (12) |
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Harun al Rashid and the Byzantine Empire |
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208 | (1) |
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Kai Kaus, ``Scientific Physiognomy and the Purchase of Slaves'' |
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209 | (5) |
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One Thousand and One Nights: ``The Tale of the Fisherman'' |
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214 | (5) |
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PART IV -- MEDIEVAL EUROPE, AFRICA, AND THE EAST |
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219 | (124) |
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The Germanic Tribes Succeed the Romans in the West |
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219 | (8) |
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Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks |
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220 | (5) |
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Law Code of the Salian Franks |
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225 | (2) |
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Feudalism and Chivalry, West and East |
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227 | (22) |
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228 | (6) |
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The Book of Emperors and Kings, ``Charlemagne and Pope Leo III'' |
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234 | (7) |
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Bahas al-Din Ibn Shaddad, ``Saladin: The Lion of Islam'' |
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241 | (3) |
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Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure (The Way of the Samurai) |
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244 | (3) |
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247 | (2) |
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East-West Images and Realities |
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249 | (11) |
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Liutprand, Bishop of Cremona, A Mission to Constantinople |
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249 | (4) |
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Memoirs of Usamah Ibn-Munqidh |
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253 | (4) |
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Sir John Mandeville, ``The Land of Prester John'' |
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257 | (3) |
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Islam and Islam's Enemies |
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260 | (10) |
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261 | (3) |
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Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddima |
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264 | (3) |
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Martin Fernandez de Figueroa, Confronting the Moors in Somalia |
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267 | (3) |
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Byzantium: The Later Period of Decay |
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270 | (9) |
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Micahel Psellus, Chronographia, ``Empress Zoe'' |
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270 | (3) |
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Robert of Clari, The Conquest of Constantinople |
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273 | (6) |
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Scholasticism, Spirituality, and Mysticism |
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279 | (12) |
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Peter Abelard, The Story of My Misfortunes |
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281 | (3) |
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St. Hildegard of Bingen, Know the Ways |
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284 | (4) |
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St. Francis of Assisi, ``The Rule of Saint Francis'' |
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288 | (3) |
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Coping with Deviant Belief: East and West |
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291 | (17) |
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Pierre de Vaux-de-Cernay, ``What Cathars Believe'' |
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292 | (3) |
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Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica: ``Whether Heretics are to be Tolerated'' |
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295 | (2) |
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William Rubruck, Journey to Cathay |
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297 | (8) |
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305 | (3) |
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Medieval Domestic Life in Western and Eastern Europe |
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308 | (6) |
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308 | (3) |
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The Domostroi, Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible |
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311 | (3) |
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Medieval Governments and Societies of China and Japan |
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314 | (20) |
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Emperor T'ai-tsung [Taizong]: ``On the Art of Government'' |
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315 | (4) |
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Sung (Song) China: Imperial Examination System |
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319 | (1) |
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320 | (3) |
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Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji |
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323 | (5) |
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John Pian del Carpini, The Tartars |
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328 | (2) |
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330 | (4) |
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The Black Death: Christian and Muslim Views |
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334 | (9) |
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The Black Death in Florence |
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335 | (3) |
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Ibn Al-Ward, An Essay on the Report of the Pestilence |
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338 | (5) |
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PART V - A WORLD IN CHANGE |
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343 | (59) |
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The Rise of the Ottoman Empire |
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343 | (12) |
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Kritovoulos, History of Mehmed the Conqueror |
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344 | (4) |
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Suleiman the Magnificent and His Courtiers |
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348 | (3) |
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Vlad Tsepes, ``The Impaler'': The Real Dracula or How the Enemy of the Ottomans Became a Legend |
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351 | (4) |
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355 | (7) |
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The Russian Primary Chronicle |
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356 | (3) |
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Heinrich von Staden, The Land and Government of Muscovy |
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359 | (3) |
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The Renaissance and Reformation |
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362 | (20) |
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Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince and The Discourses on Titus Livy |
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364 | (6) |
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Erasmus, Julius II Excluded |
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370 | (5) |
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Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, 1521 |
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375 | (3) |
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St. Charles Borromeo: Instructions to Confessors |
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378 | (4) |
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Age of Exploration and Expansion |
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382 | (8) |
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Cheng Ho [Zheng He]: Ming Maritime Expeditions |
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384 | (2) |
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St. Francis Xavier on the Japanese: ``The Best People Who Have Yet Been Discovered'' |
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386 | (4) |
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Portugal in Asia and Spain in America |
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390 | (5) |
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The Travels of Mendes Pinto |
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390 | (5) |
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395 | (7) |
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Christopher Columbus, Journal of First Voyage to America |
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395 | (2) |
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An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico: The Broken Spears |
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397 | (3) |
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Pope Paul III, ``Indians are Men'' 1537 |
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400 | (2) |
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Bartolome de las Casas, Destruction of the Indies and ``The Only Method of Converting the Indians'' |
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